ZEN i [JACK KLINE]

T W E N T Y - S E V E N

27| B A D P L A C E

TFW 2.0 (MINUS ONE) arrived at an abandoned building where Jack and Zen heard the angels say where Kaia was kept. They quietly get out of the car and Zen tucks an angel blade at the back of her jeans instead of the usual gun.

They spotted a male angel just outside, the entrance and Zen slowly walks forward to take him out. Dean grabs her hand, stopping her from advancing.

" What?", Zen whispers in confusion.

" Don't kill him, we need him for leverage.", He replies.

Zen rolls her eyes. " I don't think angels care about each other unlike Cassy, Dean."

Dean shrugs, " We need a dramatic entrance."

She snorts, " Always the drama queen, big brother."

He rolls his eyes. " Just do it."

Zen sighs and slowly creeps up to the angel and covers his mouth, holding an angel blade against his throat.

She shushes him and says, " Try anything that pisses me off and I'll give you a one way ticket into the empty.", she threatens before handing her over to her brothers.

They slowly walked into the building cautiously until they neared a room where multiple voices could be heard conversing with one another.

"I mean, you picked the wrong bait. I'm not the kind of girl folks come for. In this world, I don't even rank a milk carton. No one is gonna come for me. I'm not white, rich, blonde. No one's gonna fight for me. I don't matter.", they heard Kaia reason.

The angel chuckles. "Of course you don't matter. But they think you do. They'll show. And when they do, we'll kill them and take the boy."

"That so?"

Dean and Zen enters the warehouse, shoving the male angel in front of him while holding an angel blade to his throat. Sam and Jack follow behind.

Zen rolls her eyes at Dean since she knew they could've just killed the angel and still be on the same situation they were currently in.

She sighs, "You know, the girl's right. Your plan does kind of suck.", she smirks.

"Give us the girl.", Sam orders.

The female angel shakes her head. "She's not what we want.", she looks at Jack.

" Over my dead body, bitch.", Zen growls.

" With pleasure.", The angel snarls and goes to lunge at her.

" Don't.", Jack warns, his eyes glowing golden as he pushes Zen behind him defensively.

The angel sighs. "Jack, I don't wanna hurt you. I wanna help you. You should be among your own kind."

"My kind?", He scoffs. "The kind that kills people? That kidnaps people?"

"You don't belong with them. Come with us. Come home.", The angel states.

Jack glances around at Sam and Dean until his eyes found Zen's. He knew, ever since the beginning that home was where Zenja Winchester is.

Jack looks back at the angel. "I am home."

Suddenly, the male angel grabs Dean's wrist with the angel blade, and headbutts Dean while the female angel drops her blade into her hand, but Jack's eyes glow yellow and he holds the angel with his power, levitating her and throwing her across the warehouse, through a window and a wall as Kaia watches on, stunned.

Sam clambers to retrieve Dean's dropped angel blade, but the male angel reaches it first, punching Sam backward across the floor. The male angel is inches away from stabbing Dean in the chest with the blade making Zen's eyes widen in fear. All of a sudden, she feels her eyes glow holden as a surge of power fills up her body.

She quickly hold her hand up towards the angel and freezes him with her power just in time, forcing the angel's hand to turn so he's pointing the blade at his own chest. The moment Zen releases him, the angel stabs himself and falls to the ground, dead. Sam and Dean scramble to their feet in shock with the stunt she just pulled.

Dean picks the angel blade from the man's stomach. "I got her.", he says before running after the female angel that Jack had flung from the warehouse, while Sam, Zen and Jack run to assist Kaia.

"Are you okay?", Jack asks softly.

Kaia looks at him like he had grown three heads. "No! What the hell was that?!", she screeches.

Zen unties her and says, "They were angels."

"Bad angels.", Jack clarifies.

"Angels?", Kaia breathed in disbelief.

"Yes, and we're hunters. We kill things like them.", Sam states.

Kaia looks at Zen and Sam in shock. "Right. And he's the Son of Satan?", she points at Jack.

Sam and Zen shrugs while Jack nods and says, "I am. Yes."

Kaia looks at him in disbelief. "You're insane."

Dean walks back inside and says, "Yeah, the whole world's insane. You get used to it. She took off. She might be back, she might not."

Sam nods, "Yeah, we should move."

They soon exit the warehouse as Zen looks down at her hands. She realised that the power she shares with Jack only seems to come out whenever she was in a situation wherein the people she truly cares about get hurt.

Dean places a comforting hand on her shoulder, snapping her from her thoughts. She looks up as Dean says, " Thanks for saving my ass back there."

She sends him a small smile. " Anytime..."

They opened the door the exit and walked back towards the impala.

"We'll protect you.", Jack says to Kaia.

But Kaia had other plans. "I don't think so."

Zen and Dean look back in confusion and Dean looks slightly angry.

Sam stops and looks at her. "Wait. Hey, hey. Kaia, look, I'm sure this is a lot. But...", he sighs. "Look, we need you. Okay? My brother and I, our– our mother is trapped in– in another world, and– and if you can tell Jack where it is, then he can open a door–"

"And we can save her.", Zen interrupts.

Sam sighs and Dean says, "So what's the play?"

"Derek said there are sacred sites, places where the walls between worlds are thin, where it's easy to cross over. I was taking Kaia to the Wind Caves.", Jack says.

"The Wind Caves?", Kaia questions in shock.

"Let's roll.", Dean says, walking back to the car.

"No.", Kaia insists.

Zen narrows her eyes at the girl. "We just saved your ass in there."

"Thanks, but they only wanted me because of you.", Kaia looks at Jack.

Jack sighs. "Kaia, we need you to dreamwalk for us, to use your gift."

"It's not a gift. It's a curse. When Derek walked, he was free. He could go see beautiful things, to worlds that were paradises. I wish it was like that for me, but it's not. I only go to one place– the Bad Place. It's just... blood and death and monsters.", Kaia says in fear. Zen's eyes softened at the mention of her powers. She knew what it felt like to have an ability that she couldn't handle alone. She understood why she didn't want to use it.

Dean rolls his eyes. "Well, it sounds like a lifetime of bad dreams, but–"

"Bad dreams?", Kaia scoffs and pulls up her sleeve, revealing several long scars, surprising everyone. "When I get hurt over there, I don't wake up sweaty. I wake up bloody. This scar, it's not the only one. I'm sorry about your mom, but I can't help you."

Sam sighs. "All right, fine. Um... we can find another way. We, um—"

Dean pulls out his gun and c***s it, Kaia looks scared. Zen's eyes widened at her brother in disbelief. " Dean what're you—"

"Get in the car.", Dean states, face void of emotion.

"Dean...", Sam says cautiously.

"Get in the car.", Dean snaps and yells, advancing on Kaia and raising his gun.

" Dean, what the hell!?", Zen yells at her brother in confusion and fear.

He ignores her and yells. "Get in the damn car!", Kaia is afraid, but she relents and walked over to the impala.

Dean puts his gun down. "We're going to South Dakota.", he states and gets into the impala. Sam and Zen give each other a look of disbelief before getting in.

>••<

ZEN GROANS AS she gets up from the floor. She blinked her eyes multiple times as she looked at her surroundings in confusion. She hears a groaning beside her and she whips her head to her side and watches as Jack tries to get up.

" Jack!", she says as tries to help him up.

Her eyes then trailed up towards the cage behind Jack and gasps when she sees the person inside it.

With tears brimming in her eyes, she whispers in disbelief.

" Mom?"